Biden hands off Ukraine war to Trump…who now owns it

 Biden hands off Ukraine war to Trump…who now owns it

President Biden provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine for 13 months with reckless NATO expansion before Russia said ‘enough’ and pushed back violently. Biden then spent his last 37 months pouring over $150 billion in military aid which proved worthless in achieving Ukrainian victory. All it did was prolong Ukraine’s suffering with hundreds of thousands dead and wounded in a shattered country.

2024 candidate Trump called out this senseless stupidity for what is was, Biden’s war that Trump wouldn’t have provoked had he won in 2020. He further boasted he’d end it on first day of second term.

Tho Trump largely stopped the direct funding that Biden kept squandering till his last sorrowful day, he’s still selling weapons to the European dead-enders UK, France, Germany and others to gift Ukraine. One day Trump says Ukraine should quit without return of a single lost square mile; next day he claims Ukraine can retrieve it all. One day he ponders sending Ukraine Tomahawk missiles likely to provoke nuclear war; next day he tells Ukraine President Zelensky, who flew 4,867 miles to beg for them…’Faggedaboudit.’

Trump’s got bigger war fish to fry than the lost cause of Ukraine. He’s still supporting Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza, his fake ceasefire notwithstanding. He’s getting ready to bomb Venezuela, not content with just blasting small, unarmed Venezuelan boats to smithereens. He may be planning another round of air strikes on Iran in his quest at regime change and destabilization there.

Ukraine will collapse on Trump’ watch. Biden never wavered in support of a war impossible to win. Trump, however, wavered in his boast he would end Biden’s war, allowing it to continue incurring hundreds of thousands more casualties and more lost Ukrainian territory. By so doing, history will record Trump’s ownership of America’s failed proxy war to weaken Russia at the end, as surely as it records Biden’s ownership at the beginning.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Senate should invoke War Powers Act to prevent Trump invasion of Venezuela

 Senate should invoke War Powers Act to prevent Trump invasion of Venezuela

 

The Trump administration is already at war with Venezuela. Trump’s Navy has sent 7 small, unarmed Venezuelan boats to Davy Jones Locker, killing 29 innocents. Trump claims he’s just killing Venezuelan drug smugglers sent by Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro to kill Americans with illegal drugs. That is not law enforcement. It is premeditated mass murder.

 

Falsely claiming Maduro is a narco terrorist, Trump has put a $50 million bounty for his arrest. Trump has also sent 9 warships, including a sub, 4,500 troops, B-52 bombers and F-35 fighters into the region around Venezuela. That sure looks like a prelude to violent regime change, if not outright invasion.

 

A few principled senators, disgusted by Trump’ extra-legal war preparations, are pushing back. Senators Tom Kaine (D-VA), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced Senate Joint Resolution 90 which would invoke the War Powers Act of 1973 to prevent Trump from invading Venezuela without authorization from Congress. Such authorization from Congress will never come.

 

Their resolution may be voted on next week. Every morally centered American seeking to head off an extralegal, unconstitutional invasion of Venezuela should contact their senators to support that noble effort.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 

America's 26 year long war against Venezuela

 America's 26 year long war against Venezuela

West Suburban Peace Coalition presentation on Zoom October 21. Latin American peace advocate Stan Smith reviews American's sordid, illegal, now murderous 26 year long campaign to overthrow the socialist governments of Venezuela.

Everyone seeking to prevent Trump's impending invasion of Venezuela should contact their senators to support S.J. Res. 90 which invokes the War Powers Act to forbid invasion without approval of Congress as required by the Constitution. A vote is expected next week. An earlier Senate bill to stop Trump' murderous bombings of small, unarmed Venezuelan boats that killed 29 innocents in the Caribbean failed 48-51. 

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 


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Vaunted Trump Ceasefire? Faggedaboudit. Israel has a genocidal Palestinian ethnic cleaning to complete.

Vaunted Trump Ceasefire? Faggedaboudit. Israel has a genocidal Palestinian ethnic cleaning to complete.

The tremendous support given to Trump’s second ceasefire in Israel’s genocide in Gaza ignores reality and history.

How quickly the Trump high-fivers forget Israel abandoned Trump’s first ceasefire that lasted from January 19 to March 18. During that time Israel continued to kill hundreds of Palestinians while restricting food, water and medicine. Then, with Trump’s bombs, they resumed their grotesque genocide further obliterating Gaza while killing tens of thousands more Palestinians.

The first ceasefire released 33 Israeli hostages, leaving 48 to languish as Israel returned to their first priority, ridding Gaza of its Palestinians not yet disappeared. It took nearly 7 months for pressure to build on Israel to agree to a second ceasefire to return remaining hostages, 20 living and 28 dead.

But like Ceasefire 1, Ceasefire 2 is just genocidal ethnic cleansing by subtler means. In the first 9 days, Israel’s military has killed or wounded nearly 400 Palestinians, while again restricting food, water and medicine. Israel still occupies over half of Gaza, establishing yellow lines forbidding Palestinians to cross.

On ceasefire day 10 Israel unleased massive air strikes on Gaza City. In their most grotesque ceasefire violation, Israel bombed a vehicle that strayed across Israel’s yellow line, killing 11 family members including 3 women and 7 kids.

Was Trump outraged? Only at Hamas who he’s threatening to obliterate by giving Israel the green light to ‘finish the job.’

This should surprise no one with a moral conscience. Israel has been violating the ceasefire in Lebanon for nearly a year. During that time they’ve killed over 4,000 Lebanese, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and gobbled up 5 Lebanese areas.

That’s some ceasefire you negotiated Mr. Trump. All you accomplished is delay Israel’s one and only goal…bringing a Palestinian free Gaza into Greater Israel.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Trump furious War Chief Hegseth didn’t kill all on Venezuelan boat No. 6 he sent to Davy Jones Locker

Trump furious War Chief Hegseth didn’t kill all on Venezuelan boat No. 6 he sent to Davy Jones Locker

Rule No. 1 about being a mass murderer of hapless souls on unarmed boats off Venezuela is, ‘Leave no survivors.’ War Secretary Pete Hegseth followed that rule to a tee in his murderous strikes on 5 unarmed boats, killing all 27 aboard.

But he screwed up boat No. 6, allowing 2 survivors to be picked up by Hegseth’s death dealing Navy. Since of course there was no evidence of their involvement in drug smuggling, the irrelevant reason for blasting their boat, Trump’s Hit Man quickly whisked them off to drug kingpin Nicholas Maduro’s Venezuela. Oops, their actual countries of Columbia and Ecuador which are not on Trump’s mass murder radar.

Not bashful about trumpeting his Venezuelan boat murder rampage, Trump took to his War Criminal Social platform, touting “It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route. It was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics and there were four known narcoterrorists on board the vessel”. Trump omitted his horror that 2 survived to refute his insane murder justification scheme.

Come on Attorney General Pam Bondi. You’ve got Trump’s gleeful confession on the web to convince any responsible juror of his guilt in mass premeditated murder. Time to do your job as Attorney General, enforcing the law instead of being Consigliere for Trump’s Murder Incorporated.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL